Mafia is an educated guessing game of epic proportions. The objective of the game is to lynch or kill all mafia members before they outnumber the rest of the town. It's much like a game of poker because mafia members are also part of the town during the day and may manipulate the vote to their liking. If the mafia at any time outnumber or equal the townspeople, they win. The town's goal is to lynch all the members of the mafia.

The game is typically very active, so the thread will get big quickly. However, it is essential to read the thread to play the game. If you do not have the time or patience to read the whole thread, do not play. I will not compensate for ignorance.

Rules:

Cheating:Cheating includes (but is not limited to):1. Posting after death. You may have one polite goodbye post, but it may not contain any potentially game-changing information.2. Ruining the game by doing something like hand out your mafia's member list to the town.3. Logging on to someone else's account to get their role or looking over someone's shoulder to get their role.4. Comparing role PM times to determine roles.5. Posting screenshots of your inbox. 6. Posting or sharing any PM you receive from a host.7. Getting yourself modkilled to help your team. Your non-majority-decided death may not be used as a bargaining chip. 8. Signing up more than once using smurf accounts.9. Betting items outside of the game in exchange for in-game benefits.10. Sharing accounts with other players unless cleared by the host in advance. Otherwise, only you may post on your account.11. Breadcrumbing the specific phrasing of your role PM. Do not compare the phrasing in your role PM to prove your alignment. You can claim the abilities you have, but you can't use the specific phrasing of your role PM.12. Posting a false role PM phrased as if you received it from the host. You can still fake roleclaim, but you cannot make it look like you are posting a PM you received from the host.Cheating is not tolerated here. The punishment will be severe.

Posting:

Mod Font:This is mod font. It is reserved for moderators. Please do not use it.

Question Font:This is question font. Use it to ask the moderators questions about the rules. Please do us a favor and read the rules before you ask anything.

Activity:You must contribute to your objective in some way or another.

Smurfs:

On April 26 2011 13:22 mikeymoo wrote:Smurfs must PM the host because TL doesn't allow multiple accounts otherwise. If the host is unaware of smurfs, you (and/or your smurf) can be banned for having multiple accounts.

Spam:Spam is not tolerated, nor is any off-topic material. Do not discuss Proleague here. Do not talk about Starcraft II here. Play Mafia here. This also means you should condense your posts when possible. 15 one-liners in 30 minutes is unacceptable.

Encryption:Don't do it.

Editing:Editing is not allowed for any reason. Editing will result in a warning. After that, you will be modkilled. This is the one part of the site where it is okay to be double posting, even triple-posting. While I ask for everybody to post as concisely as possible, post again if you have to edit anything.

Inappropriate posts:If you want to post something insulting or inappropriate and know the TL mods would have a problem with it elsewhere, don't post it here. If you do, a host will warn you or modkill you and request that you be banned from future games. The hosts have the final say on what is inappropriate. If you do not like how someone is talking to you, please PM a host, Flamewheel, or Mig before involving the TL staff. If you are unsatisfied with how the situation is resolved, then you can appeal to the TL staff normally.

Reporting posts:The report button is a nice feature for regular TL, but not for this forum. We prefer to deal with things in house if possible to avoid confusion among the TL staff. If you have a problem with how someone is posting, talk to the host, co-host, Flamewheel, or Mig before using your report button. Please do not use your report button for anything other than inappropriate posts which you feel are not being dealt with adequately.

Ban discussions:Please wait until this game is over to talk about modkills and bans resulting from this game.

Play to win.This means you play your best to help your team win while you are alive and in the game. However, this does not mean that you should try to win by being a jerk to the other players so they all want to quit playing.

This also means that you cannot leave the game without a good reason without a ban. These situations will be dealt with on a case by case basis. PM your host if you need to leave the game.

You have been warned.

Out of thread communication:

It is common for mafia (and town circles if PMs are allowed) to use a medium outside of TL such as QuickTopics or IRC to communicate during the game. Please be mindful that other players may be more tech savvy than you and they may attempt impersonate members of your team or attempt to infiltrate your chat. You use these media at your own risk.

Voting rules:

1. Voting is done in THIS thread. Do not PM me your vote. Standard majority rules apply.2. Please vote in the following format: ##Vote: Qatol. Votes not done in the correct fashion will not be counted. I will update vote counts whenever I get the chance.3. No conditional voting.4. You may vote for yourself. You may not vote for anyone dead or outside the game.5. Plurality Vote: The person with the most number of votes at the end of the day is killed. If there is a tie, the first person to reach that number of votes is killed.6. Voting is mandatory. You may not abstain.

Signups:

This game is open to everyone. Signups will remain open until all player slots have been filled. When you sign up, please tell me the name of your favorite boat.

Mine is the USS Nimitz.

Game-specific rules:

Modkills:This game follows the TL Mafia Ban List. If you are modkilled, your punishment will go beyond being eliminated from this game. Please refer to it for questions about your punishment. If you want to use this game to sit out your ban, please PM Flamewheel or post in the Ban List.

ReplacementsThis game uses replacements. Replacements will be made in the game up to and including Night 2. If a player is modkilled during the designated time, then they will be replaced by a player on the replacement list.

Clues:There are no clues.

PMsPMs are not allowed in this game.

Time Cycle:This game will follow a 24 hour night/48 hour day cycle. In case I am not able to post around deadline, any votes after the 48 hour mark will not count and the game will be put on halt until the night post is up. Currently the deadline is 21:00 GMT (+00:00), but that is subject to change. Actions/votes will be accepted up to and including the posted time, but not after.Credits:Thanks to anyone who has ever hosted a game. This list grows ever longer.Thanks to everyone who helped balance this game.

If you have not read all the rules, go back and do so. I will not compensate for ignorance!

-You are living the UED life! Except you have only 40 hitpoints, no armor, and no means of attack. Still, strength in numbers, and when you identify a potential Zerg, one of your more well-armed buddies can kill him. What's that? They all got lynched and/or nightkilled? Well you... somehow still can do it. Kick the target in the nuts or something.

You have voting rights and no other power. You win with town.

Medic (Doctor)

-You have a doctorate from MIT (Mar Sara Institute of Technology). It's actually a doctorate in art history, but your patients don't need to know that. Besides, you're not a doctor. A doctor heals people, a medic just makes them feel more comfortable when they die.

Luckily your optimism can save lives occasionally. Every night you can visit someone and save them from any and all killing actions for that night. You cannot target the same person twice, and you cannot target yourself.

Alexei Stukov (Alignment Cop)

-You're the only one who knows what's going on and is willing to take risks to find out more. Every night you can check to see if a player is UED or Zerg or Crab. Simple as that.

Gerard Dugalle (Vigilante)

-You are the admiral of the entire Terran Navy and you can unleash the fury of the UED onto anyone you wish. Unfortunately the Titanic people don't allow weapons (or battlecruisers) on board, so all you have is an unloaded pistol and a bullet shoved up your ass.

During the night you may choose to fire your ass-bullet and kill someone (PM-based, not in-thread).

4 Zerg (Scum) - win when they outnumber town or nothing can stop that from happening, and when SK is dead

Samir Duran (Godfather)

-You are a cool guy who the UED doesn't suspect. Luckily Stukov doesn't know you're a smelly Zerg yet and will think you're town if he checks. Work with your team to kill everyone who isn't you.

Jim Raynor (Roleblocker)

-You're not a Zerg, but you sure as hell hate the UED. Or actually you don't, but Kerrigan is a master at pussywhipping, so you just tag along with her shenanigans and think (because you're told to) you hate the UED.

Once per night you can silence a player since you're human looking enough to convince them to put the gun/medicgun/magnifying glass down.

Infested Kerrigan (Janitor)

-You run the show and the UED doesn't know it yet. You have three abilities and can only use one of them during the entire game.

You can Cloak, which hides the role and alignment flip for that night's mafia kill since they are invisible (that is, nothing other than the name will be revealed to the town). Or, you can Ensnare, which is an undetectable roleblock (Ensnare slows down brain speed, so the target doesn't realize they're ensnared). Finally you can opt to cast Psionic Storm, which has a 50% chance to kill the target, depending on if they can dodge the storm fast enough. You will be notified if Psi Storm hits or misses.

Zergling (Goon)

-You are a zergling with no interesting powers. Except being mafia, that's pretty cool.

1 Sebastian the Crab (Serial Killer) - win when everyone else is dead

-You are a crab that likes to sing songs and has an obsession with how awesome it is under the sea. In fact, so awesome, that you want everyone to go down with the ship. Every night you can use your giant crabclaws to kill someone.

You may choose at the beginning of the game to be one of the following but not both by PMing the hosts:

1. Because you are a cute and cuddly crab, nobody suspects you of being Zerg (because you're not a Zerg, you're a crab), and you flip town to alignment checks. However your cuddliness makes you susceptible to Zerg claws.

2. You are immune to the night-kill because your carapace withstands Zerg claws, but not to the night-vig because an assbullet actually pierces your shell which scatters the fragments within your body and makes you die of severe internal bleeding. However you are no longer cute and cuddly and will flip SK.

Call it pax? (Only recently, I remember your advice- I was thinking about voice, and thought "he will be pissed why bother"- reminded me, even if you top 30 page filter I need not read all of it- just keep up while you are here. Also, I am iron butt monkey.)

UED is my favorite faction, this my favorite storyline, the Alexsander, my favorite battle cruiser. I made mention of this somewhere...

Brood war Aria, a song I will actually buy and put on the phone I type

/IN

With.

But you asked, favorite boat? Ok, gimme a sec. I have family who were in the military.

Call it pax? (Only recently, I remember your advice- I was thinking about voice, and thought "he will be pissed why bother"- reminded me, even if you top 30 page filter I need not read all of it- just keep up while you are here. Also, I am iron butt monkey.)

UED is my favorite faction, this my favorite storyline, the Alexsander, my favorite battle cruiser. I made mention of this somewhere...

Brood war Aria, a song I will actually buy and put on the phone I type

/IN

With.

But you asked, favorite boat? Ok, gimme a sec. I have family who were in the military.

Call it pax? (Only recently, I remember your advice- I was thinking about voice, and thought "he will be pissed why bother"- reminded me, even if you top 30 page filter I need not read all of it- just keep up while you are here. Also, I am iron butt monkey.)

UED is my favorite faction, this my favorite storyline, the Alexsander, my favorite battle cruiser. I made mention of this somewhere...

Brood war Aria, a song I will actually buy and put on the phone I type

/IN

With.

But you asked, favorite boat? Ok, gimme a sec. I have family who were in the military.